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Tags are a new feature for us after our move to IP Board, though I expect many people are familiar with them from other forums.
Tags are a way of flagging up the content of a thread for people, making it easier to find the content you want. If you click on 21st-Century Fiction, for instance, you'll see some tags there, such as for Juan Pablo Villalobos. If you click on that you'll be taken to other posts tagged in the same way (though currently there aren't any).
At the moment you can only create tags if you're the person starting a thread - you're given the option to do so when you post, just fill in the tag box, separating tags with commas. However, I want to change this to allow people to add tags even if they haven't started a thread. There's a plugin which does this, but I want to check about doing things like this with our developer before I do anything! (I'm still waiting to hear back about author indexes, BTW).
Anyway, there's a helpful post on this blog about it.